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MusicUlster Orchestra on Your Doorstep

The 'On Your Doorstep' initiative sees the Orchestra play in as diverse a range of venues as possible across Northern Ireland. Portico is delighted to welcome them back to Portaferry to perform some old favourites as well as more unusual pieces.

Programme

Mozart: Overture and Arias from The Marriage of Figaro arr. wind octet
Mozart: Wind Serenade in E flat major K.375

Interval

Stravinsky: Suite: The Soldier’s Tale (L’Histoire du Soldat)
De Falla: Spanish dances from the Three Cornered HatMiller’s Dance
Final Dance

About the Ulster Orchestra

Founded in 1966, the Ulster Orchestra has been at the forefront of musical life in Northern Ireland and the Orchestra's fifty six full-time musicians form the region's only professional symphony orchestra.

In 2014 the Ulster Orchestra appointed Rafael Payare as its Chief Conductor. Payare is a conductor in high demand amongst the world's great orchestra and joins a distinguished line of past principal conductors including Bryden Thomson, Vernon Handley, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Dimitry Sitovetsky, Thierry Fischer and Kenneth Montgomery. The relationship between Rafael Payare and the Orchestra was further cemented in 2016 when the conductor was made Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra. 2014 was also the year that Jac van Steen was appointed Principal Guest Conductor, in recognition of his long-standing and vital relationship with the Orchestra.

The Ulster Orchestra's mission is to enrich the lives of people living in and visiting Northern Ireland, as well as promoting the region through international touring and regular broadcasts with both BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio 3. The Orchestra strives for excellence in all it undertakes, be it regular concert performances, learning and community engagement programmes, or creative collaborations across the arts.

The Ulster Orchestra gives around 40 evening and lunchtime concerts each season in its home, the Ulster Hall, and in the Belfast Waterfront. The Orchestra performs for the BBC Radio 3 invitational concert series at the Ulster Hall and in front of tens of thousands for the BBC’s Proms in the Park celebrations each year.

A new initiative for the Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra On Your Doorstep, was founded in the 2016/17 Season (the Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Season) and it sees the Orchestra play in as diverse a range of venues as possible throughout Northern Ireland. This is an important aspect of the Orchestra's outreach work, sending everything from small ensembles to the full symphony orchestra, far and wide across the region.